CORD Physical Infrastructure Deployments: Designs, Considerations, and best practices

whitePaper | February 23, 2022

VMware Cloud partners seek to deliver unique value through regional data centers, compliance with local regulations, language and currency support, as well as value-add managed services. In a multi-cloud world, however, customers also require global availability and additional services and scale that is typically only found in hyperscale public cloud portfolios. This white paper builds on the Cloud Provider Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) model for IaaS1 and Modern Application2 offerings, which are detailed in two previously published papers. TCO provides an essential element to generate rich margins from cloud services and can have a critical impact on a VMware Cloud Provider’s profit.

whitePaper | June 29, 2022

In a growing connected economy, new demands require modern organizations to rethink how they effectively manage their data center environment. Beyond new requirements around the cloud, architectures around edge computing are also placing new strains on business and technology leaders. In a world of constant connectivity performance, efficiency, uptime, and infrastructure visibility take center stage as leaders make decisions around their digital infrastructure.

whitePaper | May 31, 2022

Modernizing U.S. agricultural data infrastructure will better equip farmers and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) with tools to adapt, innovate, and ensure a food-secure future given the increasingly dynamic conditions in which the sector operates.

whitePaper | October 17, 2022

Active Directory was introduced by Microsoft with the release of the Windows 2000 Server Operating System (O/S). DeltaV systems work in conjunction with specific Active Directory features to provide a more secure and manageable production environment. Windows domains provide centralized user accounts and groups, and combined with Windows forests you also get administration, redundancy, and scalability as part of the computers network environment. This whitepaper provides details about the Independent DeltaV Domain Controller (IDDC) functionality introduced in DeltaV version 14.LTS. This whitepaper assumes that you understand the concept of Windows domains and forests.

whitePaper | December 5, 2022

In order to make cloud services more efficient and flexible to provide support for business innovation and intelligent transformation in various industries, especially to move enterprises and edge computing to the cloud, many cloud service providers (CSP) are working on the cloud data center architecture innovation and software tuning. Those efforts can eliminate the bottleneck of the infrastructure and make it more efficient and intelligent, thereby bringing users better service and performance, higher stability and security, and better management and control efficiency.

whitePaper | December 12, 2022

Early this year, a broad alliance of citizens in Brazil published a Digital Sovereignty Charter1 In it, they lamented the rampant extraction and manipulation of local data by large technology companies and urged the government to support interoperable and open technologies, and data centers for common use.